Re: [BRLTTY] Issue linking brlapi and orca.

Le 15/09/2017 à 14:23, Dave Mielke a écrit : > [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2017/09/15 at 14:14 +0200] > >> 2017-09-15@14:05:53.157 [brltty] BRLTTY 5.5 rev unknown [http://brltty.com/] >> 2017-09-15@14:05:54.201 [brltty] Linux Screen Driver: >> 2017-09-15@14:05:

Re: [BRLTTY] Issue linking brlapi and orca.

Hello, Le 14/09/2017 à 01:47, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Didier Spaier, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 11:42:11 +0200, wrote: >> Le 13/09/2017 à 10:06, Samuel Thibault a écrit : >>> John Covici, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 03:59:06 -0400, wrote: >>>> Is the line in your /etc/b

Re: [BRLTTY] Issue linking brlapi and orca.

Le 15/09/2017 à 17:32, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Dave Mielke, on ven. 15 sept. 2017 08:23:39 -0400, wrote: >> [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2017/09/15 at 14:14 +0200] >>> 2017-09-15@14:05:53.157 [brltty] BRLTTY 5.5 rev unknown [http://brltty.com/] >>> 2017-09-15@

Re: [BRLTTY] Espeakup vs Orca

Hello, Le 16/09/2017 à 00:44, Didier Spaier a écrit : > But currently if espeakup is started just before login, it continues to > speak the messages displayed on /dev/tty1 and speech is not available on > the desktop (using pulseaudio, autostarted for each user upon login, > not run

Re: [BRLTTY] Espeakup vs Orca

Le 16/09/2017 à 11:31, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Le 16/09/2017 à 00:44, Didier Spaier a écrit : >> But currently if espeakup is started just before login, it continues to >> speak the messages displayed on /dev/tty1 and speech is not available on >> the desktop (using pu

[BRLTTY] Espeakup vs Orca

Hello, So, now in Slint brltty works, espeakup works, orca works and can speak to a braille device through BrlAPI. So far, so good. :-) But users expect to be able to start in console mode, do some stuff, launch a desktop with "startx", then switch between the desktop and the console. For

Re: [BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

Le 09/09/2017 à 13:16, Dave Mielke a écrit : > [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2017/09/06 at 22:20 +0200] > >> I prepare the next Slint version http://slint.fr >> On that occasion I will: >> _ upgrade brltty from 4.4 to 4.5, > > I hope you mean 5.5, as that's

[BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

Hello, I prepare the next Slint version http://slint.fr On that occasion I will: _ upgrade brltty from 4.4 to 4.5, _ make the installer speak with speakup, espeakup and espeak, _ make the window manager and desktops speak with Orca whenever possible. Orca and deps will be installed if speech is

Re: [BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

Le 06/09/2017 à 22:20, Didier Spaier a écrit : I forgot two questions, sorry: > 4) In the above described context, do I need to ship brlAPI? so far > I target end users rather that developers, so I am considering not > installing it by default, but providing it as a package. What do yo

Re: [BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

Hello again, One more question. 7) brltty will be started by default in the installed system if a Braille device has been used during installation. But we start brltty at the beginning of installation, whether or not /proc/cmdline includes "brltty=..." What is the simplest way to know if a

Re: [BRLTTY] Issue linking brlapi and orca.

Hello, Le 13/09/2017 à 01:38, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Didier Spaier, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 01:13:03 +0200, wrote: >> brlapi.ConnectionError: couldn't connect to b':0' with key >> b'polkit+keyfile:/etc/brlapi.key': b'connect: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce >>

Re: [BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

Le 10/09/2017 à 20:17, Didier Spaier a écrit :> Le 09/09/2017 à 13:16, Dave Mielke a écrit : > >>> 4) In the above described context, do I need to ship brlAPI? so far >>> I target end users rather that developers, so I am considering not >>> instal

Re: [BRLTTY] Packaging questions

(I sent this answer to Peter only at first, sorry). Hello Peter, nice to meet you on this list too ;) Le 25/10/2017 à 17:57, Peter Vágner a écrit : > After reading about these two issues related to the relativelly new polkit > authorization / authentification support [1], [2] I wanted to

Re: [BRLTTY] Packaging questions

Hello, Le 25/10/2017 à 20:20, Peter Vágner a écrit : > 2017-10-25 19:38 GMT+02:00 Didier Spaier <did...@slint.fr>: >> 2) In the installer the package is stripped down this way: >> ./configure \ >> --prefix=/usr \ >> --bindir=/bin \ >> --sbindir=/

Re: [BRLTTY] Packaging questions

Heelo, Le 25/10/2017 à 21:32, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Hello, > > Le 25/10/2017 à 20:20, Peter Vágner a écrit : >> Are you sure you would like to disable contracted braille? I think people >> reading and writing english, german, french braille and other b

Re: [BRLTTY] Packaging questions

Hello, Le 25/10/2017 à 21:54, Peter Vágner a écrit : > Oh yeah, I have skipped this bit thus I've commented on all these disabled > features as if they were configured like this on an installed system. Sorry > for taking your time. No worries. This gave me the occasion to review these options,

Re: [BRLTTY] Brlapi and orca.

Hello, Le 29/10/2017 à 21:34, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Note that orca uses python3, so you probably need to use python3 instead > of python. And if you compile it youslef and hav bt python 2 and 3 installed, to pick python3 you'd write: PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 \ ./configure ... Greetings,

Re: [BRLTTY] mlterm

Hello, I forgot the most important thing: Instructions for brltty are in ./doc/en/README.brltty in the source archive. I attach the version of README.brltty found in mlterm-3.8.4 Greetings, Didier comment -*- mode: text; tab-width:2; indent-tabs-mode:nil -*- Support brltty with the use of

Re: [BRLTTY] Request for testing soon to be released brltty-5.6

Follow-up and correction below. I wrote this: > Dave Mielke has requested to test the next brltty release, cf: > http://brltty.com/pipermail/brltty/2018-January/015421.html > [quoted lines from Dave Mielke] > > The current plan is for 5.6 to be released two > or three weeks from now. The

Re: [BRLTTY] Release 5.6 will be soon - please test.

Hello, Le 08/01/2018 à 22:16, Dave Mielke a écrit : > The time has finally come for the next release (5.6) of brltty. Would all of > you who can please build the latest development code and test it as > thoroughly > as you can now so that we won't have any last minute (or, worse yet, >

Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty in Ubuntu.

Hello, Le 15/02/2018 à 17:13, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > So I believe we can just stay in /bin for good :) In Slint brltty is in /bin, but we don't use systemd Didier ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an

[BRLTTY] Announce: Slint64-14.2.1 is released.

Slint64-14.2.1 is released! As a reminder Slint is a Linux distribution based on Slackware. INSTALLATION The ISO image for Slint64-14.2.1 is provided on sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slint/files/14.2.1/ To know how to use this ISO image, read:

Re: [BRLTTY] mlterm

Le 24/01/2018 à 04:41, Dave Mielke a écrit : > [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2018/01/23 at 22:06 +0100] > >> As an aside, Araki Ken, developer of mlterm, claims that mlterm-fb can >> now interface itself to brltty. I have installed a recent version, but >> have st

Re: [BRLTTY] mlterm

Erratum: Le 24/01/2018 à 06:35, Didier Spaier a écrit : > I build it for X and frambuffer, cf: > http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/source/mlterm/mlterm.SlackBuild In the comments I wrote it's built with three UIs: xlib (terminal for X) and fb (framebuffer terminal) and c

Re: [BRLTTY] Problem with the character 'en dash' (U+2013) in output

Hello, Le 23/01/2018 à 21:22, André-Abush Clause a écrit : > Le 23/01/2018 à 20:48, Dave Mielke a écrit : > >> When more than one character is mapped to the same glyph within the font, >> brltty can't >> tell which of the possible alternatives the actual character is. > OK. I didn't know this